Senseless
Unless you haven't touched any mainstream news in the last two days, you've heard about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. While the tragedy is a great one, the largest ever perpetrated by a single person in the US, it makes me a little sick at all the people that are already jumping up onto their bandwagons to push their cause. The Gun control people didn't even wait until details of the shooter were released, before they started hammering on the VA gun control laws (You only need to be 12 years old to purchase a rifle in Virgina, BTW). The other side of the debate jumped right back saying that banning guns at all is the reason that the victims weren't able to defend themselves by being armed at the time. Jack Thompson had his statement out, within 12 hours, that video games were the cause (The gamers are screwed if they find an XBox at his place with GTA in the disk tray). The US State Department is already blowing it's horn about the fact that he was an immigrant, and that tighter screening is required.
I feel even more sorry for the families of the victims whose loved ones are being used as leverage for people's agendas. Nobody denies that it was a senseless tragedy, but very few seem to be willing to truly examine the cause of why that young man spent weeks planning out a mass murder. Everyone has an opinion, I know I have my share of mine, and I hope we can all keep them to ourselves as families and friends are healing their emotional wounds.
Where is the love?
